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'First Flight of Lockheed's New Stealth Fighter Demonstrator Being Built by the Company's 'Skunk Works',' Aviation Week and Space Technology (June 20, 1977), 11.

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Sweetman and Goodall, Lockheed F-l 17, 21.

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Steven Pace, Lockheed Skunk Works (Osceola, Wis.: Motorbooks, 1992), 222- 24.

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Ralph Vartabedian, Now It Can Be Told — He Has the Right Stuff, Los Angeles Times, September 29, 1989.

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Rich and Janos, Skunk Works, 50–53; and Miller, Lockheed's Skunk Works, 161.

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'Declassified Photos,' 30. The camouflage scheme used on the first Have Blue and F-117 is similar to the 'dazzle' finish used on ships during World Wars I and II. The idea was not to 'hide' the ships but, rather, make it difficult for a U-boat commander to determine the ship's speed and heading. On an airplane, particularly one with an odd shape, like the Have Blue and F-117, a similar effect could be expected.

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Rich and Janos, Skunk Works, 54–57; and Pace, Lockheed Skunk Works, 224.

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Ralph Vartabedian, Now It Can Be Told, Los Angeles Times, September 29, 1989.

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Miller, Lockheed's Skunk Works, 162.

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Pace, Lockheed Skunk Works, 224.

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Rich and Janos, Skunk Works, 58–61.

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Ralph Vartabedian, 'Now It Can Be Told,' Los Angeles Times, September 29, 1989.

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'Plane Crash Shrouded in Mystery,' San Diego Union, undated clipping, May 1978.

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Miller, Lockheed Skunk Works, 162.

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Rich and Janos, Skunk Works, 4.